The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book! “"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses." #greyhound #npr #bookreviews

Fiduciary responsibility, innit.

‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:

Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.

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You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'. I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there

Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...

Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...

River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social exquisite memoir bookshop.org/p/books/grey...

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...

Very much liked this book —

This was a really fun conversation. Thank you @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

When the armadillos are out foraging before sundown, it’s a sign cooler temps have arrived in Texas

The White House’s furious response to the decision by Norway’s SWF to divest from Caterpillar over its support for Israeli war crimes tells us something important: divestment works. And it works even more effectively in a democratic financial system. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/divestment...

Here's a stunning piece, "At Harper’s, Lewis Hyde on “The Geological Sublime” (long read on butterflies, deep time, and climate change)." @christopherbrown.bsky.social turned me on to it in his most recent newsletter. fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/dogs-days-...

Field Notes by Christopher Brown for August 24, 2025: Dog Days, Dog Stars and Flea Peppers. open.substack.com/pub/edgeland...

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

“The left needs to stop attacking the right as though they’re free market fundamentalists and recognize that they are charlatans who will sacrifice any ideological commitment to maintain their own wealth and power.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on why the right never really cared about free markets.

Congratulations, Joanna. Also thinking about Denis Johnson's debut novel, Angels...

@orionmagazine.bsky.social have printed a short extract from GREYHOUND (published by Soft Skull Press in the US and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the UK). "Greyhound buses are part of an overlooked ecosystem. ... They are more library than shopping mall..." #greyhound #OrionMagazine

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Field Notes from the end of August, with damaged woods, resilient birds, late capitalist brutalism, ancient wild edibles, paperback preorder giveaways, and a nature writing class coming this fall: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/dogs-days-...

So now the argument is over which of the British political parties can deport people more efficiently. The Overton window has disappeared over the (rightward) horizon.

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

Also in today’s mail— @joannapocock.bsky.social’s GREYHOUND, the best and most incisive, insightful and deeply felt literary road trip across the crazy USA I have read in a long while. Arriving August 12; preorder here from Soft Skull: softskull.com/books/greyho...

Some of the best novels I've read recently: 'The Edge of the Alphabet' (Janet Frame), 'The Long Form' (Kate Briggs), 'Emergency' (Daisy Hildyard), 'Still Born' (Guadalupe Nettel) & 'The Empusium' (Olga Tokarczuk). All of them are now available in the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social sale! 👇👇👇

Notice how nobody talks about 'Christian' grooming gangs when discussing the long history of child sexual abuse in care homes and sports clubs. Funny that.

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates. To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4. This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

How did #AssetManagers take over the world? @graceblakeley.substack.com exposes how mega-investment firms like #BlackRock control trillions of dollars and exert influence over markets, corporate policy and governments @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

Another morning when the current events are dire, but @christopherbrown.bsky.social's Field Notes are pure beauty. Not a subscriber? You're missing out on a lot of insightful discussions about our relationship with the natural world. fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/subscribe

Books I Did Read 2025: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes. Wow this exists in that elusive intersection between literary fiction and hard(ish) sci-fi that I've only really found in Richard Powers or @mjohnharrison.bsky.social. Capsule review? Deep space, deep time, deep trauma, deep water(s).

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.